In the wake of the global refugee crisis, children are exposed to negative attitudes from public and private spheres. Previous research has identified family, peer, and school norms as significant predictors of children’s inter-ethnic attitudes. We extend this literature by examining normative influence from wider society, which has received substantially less attention. Among 266 children (M_age = 11.24), this study investigates the relative contributions of norms from five ingroups (family, class-peers, Irish, religious and all-humanity) to predict children’s anti-refugee bias. Perceptions of positive family and religious norms were the strongest unique predictors of contact intentions and warmth towards refugees. Intergroup anxiety and perceived threat mediated these relationships. Social dominance orientation mediated family normative influence only. These findings highlight the importance of broader groups (beyond that of proximal ingroups) for understanding children’s intergroup attitudes.

在全球难民危机之后，儿童受到公共和私人领域的消极态度。先前的研究已将家庭，同伴和学校的规范确定为儿童种族间态度的重要预测指标。我们通过研究来自更广泛社会的规范影响力来扩展该文献，而该社会受到的关注却很少。其中266名儿童（中号_年龄= 11.24），这项研究调查了五个小组（家庭，同级，爱尔兰，宗教和全人类）的规范的相对贡献，以预测儿童的反难民偏见。积极的家庭观念和宗教规范是接触意愿和对难民的热情的最独特的预测指标。群体间的焦虑和感知到的威胁介导了这些关系。社会支配取向仅介导家庭规范影响。这些发现凸显了更广泛的群体（除了近端群体之外）对于理解儿童群体间态度的重要性。